Energy is the main element for a modern lifestyle that must be considered in economically
reliable and sustainable development dialogues. The financial performance of solar power …

Renewable energy sources (RESs) are the replacement of fast depleting, environment
polluting, costly, and unsustainable fossil fuels. RESs themselves have various issues such …

The study assesses the long-term spatial and temporal solar resource variability in America
using the 20-year National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) National Solar …

High-accuracy solar radiation data are needed in almost every solar energy project for
bankability. Time series of solar irradiance components that spans decades can be supplied …

A novel automatic filtering methodology is proposed for 1-min GHI and DIF data using
surface measurements obtained at five sites located in various climate zones of Argentina …

The adaptation of modeled solar radiation data with coincident ground measurements has
become a standard practice of the industry, typically requested by financial institutions in the …

Site adaptation refers to procedures for correcting systematic errors in an extended period of
gridded modeled data using a short period of ground-based measurements used as …

Understanding the spatio-temporal variability of the solar resource is crucial to effectively
support solar power utilization. Unfortunately, long-term and high-resolved measurements of …

Project finance is based on the future cash flow of projects. Ensuring that the expected
revenue of projects will cover the debt and equity obligations issued by lenders and …

A methodology to classify days as a function of the state of the sky for Concentrated Solar
Power (CSP) plant operation is proposed. For this purpose, three indexes are used to …